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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
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I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
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Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
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People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
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... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
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Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
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Waiting is the rust of the soul.
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I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
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It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
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-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
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In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
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